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1830s FIN/5/A Tithe Applotment book for Newry Parish is missing

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I have been searching the PRONI FIN/5/A Tithe Applotment books which have lots of useful information in times before Griffiths Valuations.  The early books for the 1830s are mostly there, by parish, online including Clonallan, Clonduff, Rostrevor, Warrenspoint and Aghaderg but not Newry parish.  Thus townlands like Ballyholland, Sheeptown, Commons, Carneyhough, Carrogs, Ryan etc are missing for some reason.  I know that urban areas were not covered by this set of records but am wondering if anyone knows what has happened to the Rural Newry areas in county Down?

  A few townlands that would normally be considered part of Newry civil parish are there in either the Clonallan or Aghaderg parishes, such as Greenan and Creeve.  I am especially interested in the two Ballyholland townlands, Drumgath, Sheeptown and Derrylekagh and the Garvey and Fitzpatrick families.

Any suggestions or am I just unlucky to be wanting one of the few books that have been lost?

Ric

Ric46

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There were some parishes or townlands that were Tithe free, often the locations of former Abbeys etc, but it looks like there may have been a special arrangement for funding the church and parish of Newry - see the following extract for the town and parish of Newry in Samuel Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1837.

"..This church, built in the Gothic style, with a tower and spire 190 feet high, was finished in 1819,
at a cost of £ 12,566, British currency, exclusively of £2469 expended in the purchase of the site,
and in obtaining two acts of parliament. ..... it is endowed with £300 per ann. payable by the
lay abbot in lieu of tithe."

The parish entries in Lewis usually give details of Tithe free land or amount of Tithes raised, e.g. for a parish adjacent to Newry, Clonallan :

'..union of Clonallon and the corps of the chancellorship of Dromore, in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £450, and the gross annual value of the benefice, tithe, and glebe included, is £ 961. The parish church is a very ancient..'

 

shanew147IrelandXO Volunteer

Hi Shanew147,  Thanks for providing some clues.  Ric46

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